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adj. Full of juice; juicy.

adj. plants (Bot.), plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Full of juice; specifically, in botany, juicy; thick and fleshy: noting plants that have the stems or leaves thick or fleshy and juicy, as in the houseleek and live-for-ever, the orders Cactaceæ, Crassulaceæ, etc.

As to what all this looked like and how it tasted, well, you can't eat metaphors, and if I ever use words such as "succulent," shoot me, but suffice it to say that I remember thinking as I walked into the night: If the Roman emperors can be said to have missed out on anything, it was this.

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STANLEY. Succulent.MEG. You shouldn't say that word.STANLEY. What word?MEG. That word you said.STANLEY. What, succulent—?MEG. Don't say it!STANLEY. What's the matter with it?MEG. You shouldn't say that word to a married woman.STANLEY. Is that a fact?MEG: Yes.STANLEY. Well. I never knew that.—Pinter, The Birthday Party